Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Barack Obama is the 13th American president of my lifetime, but his tenure in the White House is unlike the others in one important respect:

No other president has faced such knee-jerk opposition from lawmakers of the other party. None. Not even Harry Truman in the years just after World War II had to endure such partisan enmity. If Obama somehow came up with a cure for cancer, most congressional Republicans would vote against federal efforts to make it widely available to the American populace.

In a column of a few weeks ago, Allen Clifton described the situation THUSLY:...